ClimbPin vs Stone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClimbPin
This app serves as a digital archivist for your climbing journey, transforming your climbing experiences into precise metrics. It automatically detects and records climbing data, helping you visualize progress and manage your projects.
- Professional career log for bouldering and lead climbing
- Smart auto-detection of climbing height and heart rate
- Exclusive metrics: Climbing Performance Grade (CPG) and Climbing Effort Grade (CEG)
- Dedicated project management for routes
- Send Pyramid visualization for ascent distribution
- Data analysis models for progress tracking
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Climbing is not just about going up; it is a dialogue with yourself. ClimbPin is dedicated to being the digital archivist of your climbing career. Through advanced data analysis models, we transform vague "feelings" into precise "metrics." From every attempt at the gym to your Redpoint moment on the crag, we are here to record, analyze, and witness your journey. 【Key Features】 Professional Career Log: Stop relying on memory alone. Whether it's Bouldering or Lead climbing, ClimbPin helps you build a complete climbing database, ensuring every ascent leaves a mark. Smart Auto-Detection: Free your hands and focus on the climb. Paired with your smart devices, ClimbPin automatically detects and records your climbing height and heart rate changes. In the peaks and valleys of your heart rate, we see not just altitude, but your composure and explosiveness on the wall. Exclusive Metrics: CPG (Climbing Performance Grade): Quantify your progress, giving you tangible proof of every improvement in your ability. CEG (Climbing Effort Grade): Visualize your effort. We focus not just on the result, but respect every drop of sweat you pour in. Your Dedicated Project Management :"When a route gets a name, it becomes a Project." Our dedicated Project module helps you manage those routes you are projecting. Log attempts, review cruxes, and track your journey until the Redpoint. Send Pyramid :Visualize your ability at a glance. The pyramid model intuitively displays your ascent distribution and ability boundaries, helping you scientifically plan your training intensity. 【To Every Climber】 ClimbPin is not just a tool; it is your partner on the wall. Let's Quantify your passion, visualize your progress.
Stone
This app helps climbers track their progress and training. Log routes, record attempts with photos and videos, and visualize your climbing journey over time. It also helps manage gym passes and create structured training plans.
- Quick climbing logs
- Apple Watch integration
- Media capture for routes
- Long-term progress visualization
- Route and journey organization
- Gym pass management
- Structured training plans
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Stone is a training app built for climbers. Whether you are bouldering at your local gym, training on sport routes, or celebrating a memorable send, Stone helps you capture every route, attempt, session, and memory — making your progress visible. - Quick Climbing Logs Organize your sessions by date and record route names, grades, colors, completion status, attempts, locations, and notes. Quick Log mode lets you mark climbs by grade while training, making it easy to record multiple routes without interrupting your session. - Apple Watch Training Start sessions, log climbs, and finish workouts directly from your wrist. Stone syncs workout data such as heart rate and calories, so you can stay focused on your next climb instead of your phone. - Capture Every Attempt Add photos and videos to your routes, whether you sent them or are still projecting. Import, organize, edit, and download your media to review movement, analyze performance, or share your best moments. - See Your Long-Term Progress Review your training calendar, statistics, trends, and heatmaps to understand your climbing frequency, volume, and grade progression. Turn your sessions into clear training summaries and see how far you've come. - Organize Routes & Your Climbing Journey Create custom collections for projects, favorite routes, and training goals. Explore your climbing history through locations and gyms, gradually building your own climbing map. - Manage Gym Passes Track punch cards, memberships, prices, expiration dates, and remaining visits. Link your sessions to your passes and always know your gym access status. Structured Training Plans Create personalized training plans by combining exercises, sets, and repetitions. Save templates and reuse them to make every session more focused. Your climbing data stays private and is stored locally or in your personal iCloud account. From your first route to your next breakthrough, Stone is with you — recording every attempt along the way. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stone.ifffff.cn
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ClimbPin at Free against Stone's $9.99. ClimbPin also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Stone's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
ClimbPin is free to download; Stone costs $9.99 up front. ClimbPin sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Stone sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ClimbPin against 5.0 for Stone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of ClimbPin's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stone's.
ClimbPin ships an update fortnightly, Stone every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | ClimbPin | Stone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CyberCorner | 杨洋 冯 |
Customer experience
ClimbPin
Stone
In-app purchases
ClimbPin
- A Chalk Block$1.99
- A Carabiner$2.99
- A Quickdraw$7.99
Stone
- Monthly Membership$0.991 Month
- Yearly Membership$3.991 Year
- Lifetime Membership$9.99







